Chapter 289: An Incredible Battle
Xu Fu suddenly became embarrassed, and the hydra on the side smiled: "He gave the eight-foot Qiong Hook Jade to his son." β
"Son, which one?" Yang Meng paused, according to Dongying mythology, there are many sons of Su Hu Wuzun, all of whom belong to this god and that god.
Hydra explained: "It's not the son of the Kingdom of God and Dongying, it's the illegitimate son outside. This guy sneaks out all day long, and there are a lot of illegitimate children outside. I remember who the eight-foot Qiong Hook Jade was for? I remember, it's called Kimura Masafuku, I've seen it, and it's cute with a big eight-character beard. β
Zhang Qingru, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said: "Kimura Masafu? is that Kimura Masafu, who is known as 'strong luck'?"
Hydra nodded: "If it weren't for the eight-foot Qiong Gou Yu on him, how could he be called 'Strong Luck'? β
Yang Meng was puzzled and asked, "Qingru, who is this Kimura Changfu?"
Zhang Qingru explained: "It's the guy who killed the soldiers of the Three Hundred Stars and Stripes Country with three dogs!"
"Poof. Yang Meng laughed: "It turned out to be him!"
Zhang Qingru's "three dogs killed 300 people" refers to the most incredible battle of World War II, that is, the Battle of Kiska Island. This battle is rarely mentioned until now, just because it was the greatest shame in the military history of the Stars and Stripes.
During World War II, Dongying actually conquered the mainland of the Stars and Stripes------- and they once occupied Attu Island and Kiska Island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.
This is an invasion of the mainland of the Stars and Stripes! Therefore, Dongying has invested a lot of people on these two islands, more than 6,000 people on the big Kiska Island and more than 2,000 people on the small Attu Island, and they will also build an airfield on them, preparing to occupy them for a long time.
Of course not! So the Battle of Attu Island was first launched, and the 7th Infantry Division, which numbered more than 11,000 men and was supported by a strong fleet, began to land on the island.
Don't look at the fact that there were only 2,630 Dongying soldiers on Attu Island, but they did not show weakness in the face of more than 10,000 Stars and Stripes troops, and this battle, which the Stars and Stripes thought could be quickly resolved, fought for three weeks! In the end, the Stars and Stripes paid the price of more than 4,000 casualties and took back Attu Island, but what about the Dongying side? The 2,602 people under the earliest commander Yamazaki Hoyo all died in the 'Banzai Charge', and in the end only 27 Dongying soldiers were wounded and alive! All of them attempted suicide.
Although the Stars and Stripes won this battle, they were also afraid------ the 2,630 defenders of Attu Island were so difficult to fight, how could Kiska Island, which had more than 6,000 defenders, fight?
So the then commander-in-chief of the North Pacific Fleet, Kincaid, ordered a postponement of the attack on Kiska Island, blockaded Kiska Island and waited for reinforcements.
When Kincaid sent more than 100 warships, including three large battleships, plus a group of B24 bombers, to surround the entire island of Kiska, Kincaid said: Not even a dog can be released!
However, Kincaid also overestimated the combat capabilities of the Dongying soldiers.
After all, it was the middle of 1943 at that time, and Dongying had just lost tens of thousands of people after the Battle of Kuah Island, and the Battle of Attu Island was also the first battle of Dongying's all-army 'jade shattering' during World War II, which shocked Dongying in China. So they made the decision: Kiska Island retreated.
The problem is that Kincaid has surrounded the whole island of Kiska, and how to retreat becomes a problem.
Their first thought was to use the submarine to secretly transport people away, but the submarine was directly discovered and sunk by the Stars and Stripes. So Toei decided to send a ship on the water to rescue him, and they sent Kimura Masafuku, who is known as 'strong luck'.
This Kimura Masafuku, as the commander of the Rear Admiral Toei, is a very mediocre guy by heart, and even a few months ago, because of his stupid command, Toei lost the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, nearly 4,000 soldiers were killed, four destroyers and three transport ships were sunk, and Kimura Masafu himself was seriously wounded, according to the practice of the Toei people, such a person should commit suicide by seppuku.
But why was he asked to rescue Kiska Island?
Because although this Kimura Masafuku is not good at combat, he is one of the few commanders in the Toei Navy who has the attribute of 'rescue'.
The reason why he became famous was because of the Great Kanto Earthquake at that time, when Kimura Masafuku was still a fish-torpedo captain, he commanded his own fish-thunder shuttle through Tokyo Bay, which was full of garbage and ruins, to participate in the rescue; later, in the Battle of Midway, Kimura Masafuku, who was already the captain of the cruiser, hung a signal flag on his ship with the signal flag of "our ship's mechanical failure" when Toei was defeated, and deliberately did not retreat, and rescued a large number of Toei sailors who fell into the water.
In addition, he was lucky, so he was called 'strong luck', and he was asked to do any work such as transporting supplies and rescue, and the battle of Bismarck was also a transport escort mission that asked him to lead eight destroyers to escort eight transport ships, but as a result, his command ability was problematic as soon as the fight began.
Since this mission to rescue Kiska Island is a rescue mission, it naturally falls to him again, which is what you are good at, isn't it?
The problem is that Kimura Masafu can't do anything in the face of the blockade of the Stars and Stripes fleet, because his fleet only has light cruisers and destroyers, and there is not a single air forceγγγγγ
Finally, in July, there was a heavy fog in the Aleutian Islands, and Kimura Masafuku's opportunity came.
Well, to be precise, he didn't do it in the first place. Because the fog was also the most tense time for the Stars and Stripes fleet, at that time, the Stars and Stripes fleet had been 'fighting' in the fog, and at the end of July, the Griffin fleet responsible for interception discovered the unknown radar echo and began to fire a salvo of naval guns, from the 27th until the shells were exhausted and returned to the sea for supplies.
Kimura Masafuku took advantage of this opportunity to evacuate all the soldiers on the island in less than an hour (to be exact, ten dead soldiers were left to check the thunder array). He didn't find it enjoyable to retreat, and laid a large number of mines on the beach, and after doing all this, the whole fleet fled back to Dongying, and no one on board was killed or injured.
And the rest of the stuff is fun.
In the next three weeks, bombers and naval guns bombarded Kiska Island indiscriminately, and in the past three weeks, a total of 106 aerial bombardments and a salvo of naval artillery were carried out, and the entire Kiska Island was blown up.
After feeling that the bombing was almost over, more than 35,000 soldiers landed on Kiska Island under the cover of more than a hundred ships. After all, with the lesson of the Battle of Attu Island, the landing soldiers were cautious and opened fire at the slightest movement! On the first day of the landing operation, there was a misunderstanding between the landing soldiers, and two groups of their own men frantically fired at each other, killing and wounding more than 30 people.
The day after the landing, they found another room with a sign at the door that read: Quarantine for Plague Patients. The Stars and Stripes Kingdom suddenly disrupted their morale, and quickly stopped the attack and transported a large number of vaccines, and the military doctors were busy injecting more than 35,000 soldiers one by one.
On the third day of the landing operation, the Stars and Stripes were even more miserable, when the destroyer USS Ebernar-Reed ran into a mine, killing more than 70 people, wounding more than 100 people, and leaving more than 180 people unaccounted for.
The Stars and Stripes eventually turned the whole island of Kiska over, finding only three dogs------ which satisfied the order of their fleet commander, Kincaid, to let not a single dog go, and to catch three.
As a result of more than 300 casualties in the Stars and Stripes in the end of such an unguarded empty island, is the Stars and Stripes embarrassed to mention it?
And Kimura Masafuku seems to have regained his true character of 'strong luck', commanding the last victorious battle of the Toei Navy, that is, the 'Reihorn Operation' more than a year later, and since then Toei has been completely defeated.
This Kimura Masafuku turned out to be Xu Fu's illegitimate son?
Yang Meng frowned and looked at Xu Fu: "I said Xu Fu, your level of discipline is not good, you are actually the admiral of the year?"
Xu Fu hurriedly explained: "The conscience of heaven and earth, although I love him, but I didn't give him anything during the war against the Han Kingdom, and I was worried about what would happen to him when I was against the Stars and Stripes, so I gave him the eight-foot Qionggou Jade." β
Yang Meng felt more comfortable when he heard this: "He has been dead for so many years, where can I find this eight-foot Qiong Gou Jade?"
Xu Fudao: "Actually, I know where the eight-foot Qiong Gou Jade is, but it's really a bit troublesome. β
Yang Meng frowned slightly, where is the trouble that Xu Fu said on this face?
"Is it in High Heaven Plain?" Yang Meng asked.
Xu Fu shook his head and said: "No, no, no, he is in the world, in Dongying, to be precise, in the Naval Academy in Etajima City, Hiroshima Prefecture." β
"How did it get there, and what was the difficulty in getting it back from there?" asked Yang Meng puzzled.
Xu Fu smiled bitterly: "The eight-foot Qiong Hook Jade is sealed in a steel container, and the outer shell of that container must be opened to take out the eight-foot Qiong Hook Jade inside." However, the steel container was too large and difficult to cut, so it was not easy to take it out. β
Zhang Qingru, who was on the side, suddenly spoke again at this time: "The steel container you said doesn't mean the anchor of the 'Snow Wind', right?"
Xu Feng was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then nodded and said, "Yes, yes, that's it!"
Yang Meng was puzzled and asked, "What 'Snow Wind' anchor?"
Xu Feng said with a smile: "A ship after World War II, the absolute 'Heavenly Evil Lone Star', is a typical ship of the Dead Dao Friends and the Poor Dao anyway. Whoever leans on it dies. Now the ship has been dismantled, and the rudder is placed in the Naval Academy in Etajima City. β
Yang Meng smiled: "Isn't γγγγγγγit just an anchor? Suddenly, he froze in place.
"What's wrong with you?" asked Zhang Qingru.
Yang Meng covered his face with a painful face and said: "I'm so stupid, what did I let you do, I can't bring back the 'three artifacts' with a big sleeve! I forgot about this stubble!"